Scalable-Group Tag eXchange Protocol (SXP)
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Network Working Group M. Smith
Internet-Draft R. Kandula
Intended status: Informational S. Appala
Expires: April 23, 2020 Cisco Systems
October 21, 2019
Scalable-Group Tag eXchange Protocol (SXP)
draft-smith-kandula-sxp-09
Abstract
This document discusses scalable-group tag exchange protocol (SXP), a
control protocol to propagate IP address to Scalable Group Tag (SGT)
binding information across network devices.
Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. SXP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. SXP Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. SXP Connection Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1.1. SXP Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1.2. SXP Message integrity/authenticity . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1.3. SXP Connectivity Discovery and Connection Recovery . 7
3.1.4. SXP Connection Setup Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1.5. SXP Connection States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2. Binding Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2.1. SXP Learned IP-SGT Binding recovery . . . . . . . . . 9
4. Message Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1. Bit and Octet Numbering Convention . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2. SXP Message Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3. Attribute Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.4. SXP OPEN and OPEN_RESP Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.4.1. Node-ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4.2. Capabilities Advertisement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4.3. Keep-alive and Hold Time Negotiation . . . . . . . . 17
4.5. SXP UPDATE Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.5.1. UPDATE Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.5.2. UPDATE Message Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
4.6. SXP ERROR Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
4.6.1. Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
4.7. SXP PURGE-ALL Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4.8. SXP KEEPALIVE Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
5. Update Message Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
5.1. UPDATE Message Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
5.2. UPDATE Message processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.3. Generating UPDATE Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6. SXP Failure Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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